Physicists should study physics, although we're talking about nuclear physics and anything I get wrong is some High Level Shit(TM).
Well, not all that high level.
Sometimes I'm surprised scientists are so stupid, really.
Before accusing others of stupidity you should maybe know a little about the subject under discussion
They have that whole mass-energy conservation bullshit,
bullshit?
but both fission and fusion apparently produce tons of energy.
Now might be the moment to think "stop! Maybe I don't know as much as I think I do"
So if you can get the energy to cause the reaction in one direction, it's exothermic; if you can do it in the other direction, it's also exothermic.
Now is certainly the moment to think "yup, I must be making some elementary mistake here"
If you can make it oscillate, it produces a run-away exothermic process that self-feeds and turns the universe into a ball of molten liquefied thermal radiation expanding at the speed of light.
Garbage in, garbage out. You've correctly reasoned from incorrect premises.
Only if you use the incorrect definition of terrorism as "bad violence". If you use the original definition as "violence to change the political behaviour by terrorising the victims" then there's nothing subjective about it - the attacker tells you he's a terrorist, for example saying he's going to impose a regime of "shock and awe".
I won't bother responding to your semi-racist blather, but:
It's straight out of Dickenson where somebody with everything claims injury because they had to clean a little poor kids guts off their carriage and it ruined their day.
As it happens I do live near a rubbish burner. It's horrible, ever since it was built the amount of dust in the area has gone up fivefold. If I wash my car and they run the burner that evening in the morning it is covered in dust.
Must be broken. You're probably going to die of dioxin provoked cancer.
(Seriously, a badly run incinerator can be deadly ).
It's just a shame no-one wants to live near a power station or all that heat could be put to good use in the winter.
I'm not an engineer but it seems like even if it had to be piped a few kilometres the heated water could be used in central heating, heated pavements or industrially.
Huh? Never heard of CHP plants? Didn't know that many buildings in Paris are heated by steam pipes coming from nearby power plants? (Some burning domestic rubbish).
(or did you mean to say "It's just a shame no-one wants to live near a nuclear power station"?)
All debts are liabilities for someone and assets for someone else.
The Government owes money to the social security fund - the fund has an asset, the government has a liability.
If you think the government is not good for the money it owes you've got a rather more serious problem. I wouldn't bother worrying about social security.
There is no actual money in the Social Security "trust fund." The money collected by the payroll taxes above and beyond what was required for paying benefits got spent by other government agencies.
well, bad analogy: no one here is old enough to remember before earbuds and stereo.
Pah, I remember when radios took time to warm up, when the dial was labeled Rugby, Hilversum, Luxemburg... I remember listening to my favorite radio station sinking in high seas...
(wait for somebody to trump me me with a crystal set).
The iPhone is quickly losing market share to android devices. In November of 2010, over 40% of global smart phone sales were android based devices, as opposed to 26% which were iOS based devices.
While such measures are undeniably helpful in the short term, there is great debate about whether or not they were helpful or harmful in the long term.In the long term we're all dead.
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Well, not all that high level.
Before accusing others of stupidity you should maybe know a little about the subject under discussion
bullshit?
Now might be the moment to think "stop! Maybe I don't know as much as I think I do"
Now is certainly the moment to think "yup, I must be making some elementary mistake here"
Garbage in, garbage out. You've correctly reasoned from incorrect premises.
The scientific community has too little framework for "I don't know, it just works, stfu."
Well, obviously science and scientists have a teeny little problem with the "stfu" part of that.
No problem with "this happens, I have no clue why". A huge problem with "Turn that gamma ray detector off! This is our experiment!"
Add some physics to that list, please.
Only if you use the incorrect definition of terrorism as "bad violence". If you use the original definition as "violence to change the political behaviour by terrorising the victims" then there's nothing subjective about it - the attacker tells you he's a terrorist, for example saying he's going to impose a regime of "shock and awe".
Yup, just like those crazy islamists of the LTTE.
Uh, go read "The man who was Thursday".
It's where Get Smart stole the story.
Yes, but was she hot?
Uh, that'd be Pravda. No, Al-Jazeera means "The Island".
You're right about the rest of it though.
I won't bother responding to your semi-racist blather, but:
Who's this Dickenson chappie?
Actually I had not heard about that. We don't have anything like it in the UK which is a shame.
Uh, oh yes you do. Check out http://www.chpa.co.uk/case-studies_19.html for some examples.
As it happens I do live near a rubbish burner. It's horrible, ever since it was built the amount of dust in the area has gone up fivefold. If I wash my car and they run the burner that evening in the morning it is covered in dust.
Must be broken. You're probably going to die of dioxin provoked cancer.
(Seriously, a badly run incinerator can be deadly ).
It's just a shame no-one wants to live near a power station or all that heat could be put to good use in the winter.
I'm not an engineer but it seems like even if it had to be piped a few kilometres the heated water could be used in central heating, heated pavements or industrially.
Huh? Never heard of CHP plants? Didn't know that many buildings in Paris are heated by steam pipes coming from nearby power plants? (Some burning domestic rubbish).
(or did you mean to say "It's just a shame no-one wants to live near a nuclear power station"?)
Because I want to make sure I get the one that doesn't fuck up the taste of my hamburger.
It is, of course, both.
All debts are liabilities for someone and assets for someone else.
The Government owes money to the social security fund - the fund has an asset, the government has a liability.
If you think the government is not good for the money it owes you've got a rather more serious problem. I wouldn't bother worrying about social security.
HTML zaps < symbol. Everyone is in violent agreement.
Doesn't matter. Money people owe you is an asset.
Your no scottish?
Two syntax errors in one line of shell script.
You need a ";" after the "]" and ": fi" at the end.
Pah, I remember when radios took time to warm up, when the dial was labeled Rugby, Hilversum, Luxemburg... I remember listening to my favorite radio station sinking in high seas...
(wait for somebody to trump me me with a crystal set).
Funniest slashdot post ever and I have no mod points.
If you remember correctly.
The chances of the Bear being a copy of a US aircraft are roughly zero, on aesthetic grounds if no other.
A swept wing turboprop powered bomber with supersonic propellers?
(You may be mis-remembering the TU-4, a reverse-engineered copy of the B-29, or the TU-85, a failed attempt to scale up the TU-4).
Yeah, that was why my N900 was so cheap.
Where do you get them numbers?
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1466313 says:
Table 2
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 3Q10
Symbian 36.6%
Android 25.5%
iOS 16.7%
RIM 14.8%
Windows 2.8%
Linux 2.1%
Other 1.5%
Because the so called "Unix IP" consists of copyrights and trade secrets (hahha), Novell own no Unix patents.
Corporate where?